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pancreatic

pan kree a tik

  • a  of or involving the pancreas
    pancreatic cancer

  • These were transplanted into mice whose own pancreatic cells had been deliberately destroyed, making them insulin-deficient.
  • It was a year of challenge and triumph for the man behind the iPod, who learned he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer and had surgery to remove a tumor.
  • A computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Randy was told last August that his pancreatic cancer had spread and he had just three to six months to live.
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  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Reuters
    Ginsburg said in the statement she underwent "a complete, successful, surgical removal of a pancreatic cancer" on February 5 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City."
  • Steve Jobs in Expressindia.com
    This weekend I underwent a successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from my pancreas,Jobs wrote in the e-mail. "I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent...
  • Jim Bunning in USA Today
    Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live after (being diagnosed) with pancreatic cancer,Bunning said, according to the newspaper.

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